A milestone study led by University of Queensland researchers has identified the main types of E. coli bacteria that cause neonatal meningitis, and revealed why some infections recur despite being ...

"Until meningitis is ruled out through lumbar puncture, septic very-low-birth-weight infants at high risk of mortality should receive empiric antimicrobials with high delivery through the blood-brain ...

Febrile infants aged 8–60 days with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection showed an exceedingly low rate of invasive bacterial infections, such as bacteremia and meningitis. This finding suggests that ...

Two new decision rules can help identify neonatal or paediatric meningitis having a bacterial aetiology and thereby better tailor care. Investigators prospectively studied 3002 patients younger than ...

Among the 981,869 children, 0.8% were diagnosed with sepsis and less than 0.1% diagnosed with meningitis; overall, 1.2% of children developed epilepsy during the study period. Children with clinically ...

Among the sample of 981,869 children, researchers found that the incidence rate of epilepsy was 1.6 and 0.9 per 1000 person-years for children with diagnosed sepsis and those without an infection, ...